Arthur Balfour Quotes

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Arthur Balfour

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 25, 1848 - March 19, 1930

Topics

ArtReadingMoreHalfOnlyWho

I will say this: Boy, did I get lucky to work with Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington.

Andrew Breitbart

WorkSayBoyWillLuckyGet

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

Andie MacDowell

TimeSheComingOwnHerJust

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

Jeff Bridges

BusyLazyAlwaysWell

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.

Steve Erickson

HistoryWayMeanCourseSupremeNut

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

St. Vincent

ParentsPeopleThinkMusiciansWant

I always have a lot of hand cream.

Sigrid

HandAlwaysCreamLot

I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.

Mary Beard

PowerThinkUnexpectedCreateWhy

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Michel Gondry

PeopleSometimesWayOriginalResist

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Michelle Obama

LoveWomenGratitudeMenParty

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

Astro

MyselfSchoolMeCoolKidKids

Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'

Shana Alexander

VoiceNameSayTelephoneGiveSock

One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'

Martin Chalfie

WorkGreatAnimalGreat ThingsSee

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